Indian Defence Update Blog

The upgrade of India’s Mirage 2000-H fleet could face a roadblock, after the maintenance warranty from original equipment manufacturers Dassault Aviation and Thales of France expired with nobody willing to continue footing the bill....

Details are now emerging that the Indian drone which had crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Sikkim sectorhad crashed about a week ago in China’s Chumbi Valley located near the Doklamstandoff site and where there is a...

After its entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime in June 2016, India was on Thursday admitted as the 42nd member of the WassenaarArrangement – a global grouping that regulates transfer and access to conventional weapons and...

India has requested China to return the Indian Army drone operating in north Sikkim, which went down in the Chinese territory on Thursday, even as Beijing accused India of violating its air space and...

In a significant development, elite export control regime Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) on Friday decided to admit India as its new member, which is expected to raise New Delhi’s stature in the field of non-proliferation...

Highlights Criticism is rising in Pakistan against secrecy surrounding the terms of CPEC agreements. China faces perception battle as CPEC is crucial for its Belt and Road Initiative CPEC is only operational arm of...

On December 8, 1967, when Commander K.S. Subramanian read out the commissioning warrant in freezing -15 degree Celsius at Vladivostok, submarine base in Russia then USSR, little did he know that he was heralding...

In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin. It’s not exactly what...

Last week, a modified Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jet took off from Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal and fired a BrahMos supersonic, nuclear-capable cruise missile at a target ship in the...